10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2021

It is also fascinating to see how similar Old World trogons look to their New World relatives, right down to the same flamboyant color patterns. I would love to know how the order spread across these regions, since that spread must have involved either crossing oceans or the frigid regions that these birds avoid.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2019

John Porter McCown, who shot the first recorded specimen of this species known to Euro-American science, was a Confederate general, a high-ranking officer in the insurrection led by the southern plantocracy to preserve and expand Slavery and the mode of white supremacy which it supported. McCown is an extraordinary case. Well, no more!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

She lives part-time in Uruguay and is co-director of the Fiction Meets Science program at the University of Bremen, Germany, which seeks to bridge the “two cultures” of science and literature. Yes, that’s right – she adds an epilogue. The novel works, mostly, and who better than Gaines to make it so?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

While not in New Guinea and the tropical Pacific, he helped establish natural history-based undergraduate student programs that integrate indigenous communities with wildlands conservation in threatened landscapes of western North America and Central America.” Science doesn’t work that way! Science Schmience.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Birkhead, the experienced storyteller who is also Emeritus Professor at the School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, author of multiple scientific articles as well as books of popular science, knows how to make it readable and fun. Colonialism and appropriation of knowledge is discussed in Chapter 6, The New World of Science.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2013

In this case, the signs were right. Also a sign when I spot other books by the same author on the shelf in the office of a member of my thesis committee, and on my own Christmas wish list. This is a good book. Other signs: Last night, as I was reading this in the bar, a man came up to me and asked about it (please don’t do that.)

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. Now, in 21st century America, we’re entertaining new considerations, in keeping with our modern understanding of wild animals and conservation.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The task of wrestling this topic down into something that the human mind can manage, without losing sight of the big picture because it’s snowing in Buffalo, is likely to be the task of a lifetime for many science communicators.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 14, 2012

Science at the Ends of the Earth – An examination of the remarkable scientific work being performed at the South Pole. We loved it when the penguins jumped out of the water, and right onto a camera man! Freeze Frame – A series of 6 10-minute “making of” featurettes, one for each episode. Some of it is quiet funny as well.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2012

Though it was well-known to the Native American populations that shared its space, the black-footed ferret was overlooked by Lewis and Clark and all subsequent Euro-American expeditions, remaining officially unknown to science until John James Audubon, his sons, and the Rev.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

For birders especially in America, this landscape will soon provide doom, destruction, death, and decay. Despite being taken in Europe, this image exemplifies why forest birding in North America might soon be rated NC-17. North America may currently feel very smug, safe and sound. American birders, brace to receive catastrophe.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2011

I don’t get a lot of life birds in North America any more, but this confiding little gent offered himself up to the list: a Florida Scrub-Jay. Gaily color-banded, I’ve no doubt each individual is well-known to science. Get a load of the mandible on the granddaddy skimmer to the far right. But here you go.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

That’s a photo of Ridgway’s office on the right, fifth floor of the South Tower. He wrote about birds in North America, Central America, and parts of South America, including the Galapagos. Ridgway spent the rest of his career in the Castle, the Smithsonian building that then housed the National Museum’s bird collection.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Hugh Powell is a science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Left to right: Rich Hoyer, Jake Mohlmann, Manuel Bryce, Gustavo Bautista, Paul French, Steve Howell. Birding bird race Birding Rally Peru South America' This is his first contribution to 10,000 Birds. Come to Peru, they said. Photo by Hugh Powell.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2016

How many birders are there in America? Right now, it is in the midst of an ambitious recruiting drive , to expand its membership from about 12,000 to 16,000. But that estimate is admittedly more art than science, depending, as it does, on one’s estimate of what fraction of birders would engage in these countable activities.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2013

An excellent synopsis of the situation is right here at 10,000 Birds. All populations mentioned above for both species have occurred in North America, and larophiles already attempt to separate out these forms when possible. 2 of which make their home in the United States. This coastal jay was photographed at Ano Nuevo State Park, CA.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

Diversity of habitat means, of course, great biodiversity, and the Introduction boasts that Bolivia “is the richest landlocked nation on Earth for bird diversity, the sixth richest overall, and the fifth richest in the Americas” (p. Each species is numbered, with the numbers referring to the illustrations on the right.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2011

But still, there is variation in variation and how rapid climate change occurs can matter, as demonstrated in a paper just published in Science: The Influence of Late Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity on Species Endemism. Well, that’s probably a little bit true, but only a very little bit.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

Erika is a first year graduate student studying Ecosystem Science and Conservation at Duke. In her free time she travels near and far to find birds to continue building her life list, though many of her favorites can still be found right in her own backyard. Banding is best done in teams split into three, potentially four groups.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2012

So there I was with one of North America’s most famous birders, safely out of the rain, with a cold beer, my binoculars, and my camera. on Apple Snails , for which they have a nicely-hooked, long beak that is just right for digging succulent snails out of the safety of their shells.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

What are the best field guides for birds in North America? Birding can be enjoyed at various levels of intensity, from casual birdwatching in one’s backyard to more dedicated pursuits that involve keeping birding lists, participating in birding competitions, or contributing to citizen science projects. Analysis : Good summary.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. That’s right – birds eating clay. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

There are also two pages illustrating the “Holistic Approach,” silhouettes of each species (Western birds on the left, Eastern birds on the right), that allow for comparison of structure, size, and shape. Large and colorful, they include Mexico, Central America and sometimes South America, showing the full migration route.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

It is also familiar at inland sites in winter, especially reservoirs and refuse tips, and breeds in the relatively-Northerly regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Wicked, right? Herring Gull The Herring hull is everybody’s idea of a seagull, being present throughout the year at coastal cliffs, beaches, harbors and towns.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

I knew he was also a former Marvel comic book writer and editor, but did not know that he also, unsurprisingly, had a history of involvement in LGBTQ and Black rights advocacy. In other words, we’re getting the whole Christian Cooper, and I’m glad.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Scientists all over the world are sounding the alarm about ecological disruptions already in motion, and birders in North America are already seeing changes in the distribution of species, from the 61 percent of bird species wintering farther north to expanding ranges of birds like Mississippi Kite and Great-tailed Grackle. . What a horror!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. Each spread consists of a full-page painting of a bird or group of birds on the left and a combination of text and illustrations on the right.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Only then will these companies “do the right thing,” if only to ensure their continued survival. 5, 2009 The writer worked from 1978 to 1990 at Consumers Union as a health and science writer for Consumer Reports Magazine. Starting today, I’m no longer eating ground beef. Ann Calandro Flemington, N.J.,

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2013

It is self-evident when watching a grebe, for instance the wide-ranging and common Pied-billed Grebe of the Americas, that this is a bird built for the water unlike any other. I would never have believed it, but if the science says so who am I to argue otherwise? Pied-billed Grebe , photo by Steve Tucker. Not enough for you?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

This is also where Johnson starts talking about the cost of the theft to the Museum and to science. He says he is motivated by what he has learned from the curators about the skins importance to science, but he is also clearly irritated by the fact that Rist has gotten off so lightly.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

crossing the Carribean and winding up in South America? And if you look into it enough, it presents a classic case where science can fail us. I believe in science. Science is based on logic and evidence, which I think is a very respectable way to look at the world. Science, for many years, has done no better.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This bit of science is a nice final counterpoint to an account that has emphasized art, history, and literature. He effectively brings his point across by presenting facts and images and a little bit of hard science. I think this is one of the reasons I enjoy reading his books. journey, written up in diary format. What a horror!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

Where did the Coney Island Gray-hooded Gull come from, Africa or South America? I kept wishing I had Rare Birds of North America , by Steve N. Howell, Ian Lewington, and Will Russell, right in front of me. Rare Birds of North America covers 265 species within these parameters. What does “ship assisted” mean?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2012

At the recent Swarovski Social Media Summit in Arizona, Nate proselytized passionately for the program that both manages your sightings and contributes them to science. The IOC has been on a mission to remove all grammatically incorrect hyphens from common names , but eBird required me to manually return every one to its rightful place.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Greater Double-collared Sunbird (right) is less common and more localized than its smaller cousin. In 1996, several pipit specimens were collected for DNA analysis and it turned out that there was not one, but two new species to science in this sample! My home country of South Africa can only be described as a birding paradise!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2018

Shakespeare was, supposedly , the reason starlings, house sparrows, and other non-native birds were introduced to North America. The expression on her face, trying to figure out which of the two is Mr. Right – that is to say, which is the more beautiful — is, to this human anyway, priceless.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

But I found myself wondering things like: If Common Ringed Plovers migrate from here through Europe, and Semipalmated through North America, what happens to the different type of offspring from a single mixed brood? Do the Common Ringed type migrate through Europe and the Semipalmated head south?

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